GT93 wrote: ↑June 3, 2022, 3:18 am
tamada wrote: ↑June 1, 2022, 10:15 am
GT93 wrote: ↑June 1, 2022, 9:53 am
tamada wrote: ↑June 1, 2022, 5:51 am
GT93 wrote: ↑June 1, 2022, 3:31 am
AlexO wrote: ↑May 31, 2022, 8:17 pm
jackspratt wrote: ↑May 31, 2022, 8:08 pm
Just as the colour red will predominate in the Australian parliament after the election, the red mist has descended over poor old Alex again.
I really don't care what halfwit you lot vote for. Seriously do you think anyone in the civilised world cares what you lot do. Look at the economic situation in the land of the jumping rats. China not our best friend anymore. Oh whoa!!!!. Glad there are some who can look at the big picture and see what's needed.
I'm not Australian. I care.
I suggest it's the British who have been struggling with the big picture over recent years. That's no surprise when we look at who is the current British Prime Minister.
You might be very hard pushed to find any recent British PM or Leader of the Opposition who had "keeping the Antipodes in the fold" as a key part of their policy. Maybe Churchill when he needed WWII cannon fodder was the last one? As for the current imbecile, that was wrought of Brexit, not some fanciful Auxit or the republican aspirations of the Lesser Spotted Antipodean. Don't lets get above our station now.
Strawman. Australia and New Zealand never saw China as a best friend or even as a friend. The US as you know has been the player in the Pacific and not the UK since WW II. As for the UK it has been furiously bashing other liberal democracies for almost a decade.
Give over. It's not about being friends. Australia and New Zealand depends on China for
trade. You're the southern hemisphere's answer to Germany and Russian gas.
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Since Australia and New Zealand haven't been paying attention to their closest neighbors and allowed the Chinese to slip into The Solomon's and Samoa, maybe you lot can't be trusted with self-rule when matters of global security are ignored. You haven't even got the bloody submarines yet.
That's why you need a Governor General and whoever is on the British throne.
Trading partners are very different from friends. For example the EU is a British trading partner but doesn't now seem to be considered a British friend.
I understand NZ and Australia have been pressing the US and the UK to get more involved in the Pacific for years. Both the US and UK have been responding (e.g. opening new embassies and high commissions). As sovereign states the Pacific Islands are entitled to explore their options with respect to economic development and foreign relations. The Chinese will need to up their offers.
I understand Queen Elizabeth is the head of state of the Solomon Islands and she last visited there in 1982. If correct, that's disgraceful.
We don't need a Governor General nor a monarch. I understand an increasing number of Britons also think the UK doesn't need a monarch. I was impressed at how quickly Wong went bowling through the Pacific after the Aussie election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_ ... on_Islands
Au contraire, Brexit has opened up the opportunity for true, multilateral friendships between the UK and individual European nations, unfettered by trade barriers and worrying about what their neighbors think. Case in point, the British led the charge in militarily supporting Ukraine in the days and weeks immediately after the Russian invasion while the European collective panicked, especially France and Germany. The EU followed the UK and are still friends.
When you introduce HM into your every fragile debating point, she truly does rent a lot of space in that wee head of yours doesn't she? The House of Windsor will endure in the UK so you pay no mind to what you occasionally read in the gutter press as they feed the feeble minded.
Just because Albo has thrown a sop to the republican demographic, there's no need to wet yourself.
